Question

Find the outlier in the following set of data. 4.7, 3.4, 4.2, 0.5, 4.8, 5.6, 5.4, 5.9

Answer 1

The outlier is 0.5. It is clearly not in the same 'range' of data as the rest.

Answer 2

0.5 because it is the number that is the furthest away from any other number. Outliers are numbers that don't correlate with the rest of the data.